[ale] Linux laptops (dell)

[Jason Day]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:48:38PM -0400, Thomas Holmquist wrote:
> >
> >
> >The only problem I know of is the i810 sound card.  It only supports one 
> >application using the device at a time.
> >
> 
> WRONG! It's the OSS sound drivers that only support sounds from one app 
> at a time. try ALSA (http://www.alsa-project.org) for better sound 
> drivers that can play sounds from more than one source at a time.

I have an IBM EPro box at work with an i810 sound card, and I have to
say the ALSA drivers sound much better than the OSS driver.  With the
OSS driver, I would get lots of distortion when playing mp3s, but they
sound fine with ALSA.  I don't know about multiple apps using the device
at once, though, as I don't use gnome or kde.
-- 
Jason Day                                       jasonday at
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